Desire Quotes

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

Our visions begin with our desires.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

What if desire wasn’t an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

We all return to dreams, don’t we? The unattainable is alluring, desire is tenfold.

If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.